Capítulo 1351: Chapter 539: The Birth of a New God! (Part 5)

119 to 96, the Lakers defeated the Cavaliers again, leading the series 2-0!

G3 moved to the away game, Harden had a triple-double, Zhang Yang scored 36 points, and the Lakers effortlessly defeated the Cavaliers 133 to 116, leading the series 3-0. However, this time the Lakers couldn’t complete the sweep and were pushed back to Los Angeles by the Cavaliers.

On the night of the 17th, the Cavaliers were unbelievably accurate, James shot 20-for-11, including 7-for-12 three-pointers, and 6-for-6 free throws, scoring 35 points.

Love shot 12-for-7, including 6-for-8 three-pointers, scoring 23 points.

With James becoming a space-style power forward, Irving went on a crazy drive, overwhelming Harden, shooting 27-for-15, including 2-for-2 three-pointers, and 10-for-8 free throws, wildly scoring 40 points.

The Lakers’ offense was actually very good today, Zhang Yang scored 38 points, DeRozan 30 points, Harden 26 points 7 rebounds 10 assists, Blake and Nick Young both scored 10 points, for a total of 129 points.

But the Cavaliers’ single-game three-point shooting was 45-for-25, with a 55.5% shooting percentage, strongly defeating the Lakers 137 to 129, refusing to be swept!

Two days later, on June 20th, Zhang Yang and his teammates returned to Staples Center to face the Cavaliers in Game 5 of the Finals.

Since the midseason of ’13-14, when Silver succeeded as commissioner, he implemented a legacy from Stern – changing the criticized finals 2-3-2 format that’s been criticized for decades, to the same 2-2-1-1-1 format as the previous rounds.

But 4 seasons have passed, and for the first time using the new format, the first 3 seasons it didn’t make much of a difference, because they were all sweeps and they didn’t reach Game 5.

Tonight, the Cavaliers again threw 40 shots beyond the three-point line, but their shooting percentage couldn’t compare to the previous game, only 35%.

A 35% three-point shooting rate, if they only shot 20 times, it would barely not hold them back, but shooting 40 times…

The Cavaliers initially expected to shoot the Lakers out like in the previous game, but as they shot, they couldn’t stop shooting.

Opposite them, Zhang Yang threw 9 three-pointers in the first half, 15 during the whole game, shooting 15-for-9! Breaking the 10-year Finals record set by Ray Allen for 8 three-pointers in a single game!

The Lakers team collectively shot 35-for-18 from three-point range, with players other than Zhang Yang also achieving an impressive 20-for-9 in three-pointers.

25-for-14, including 9-for-15 three-pointers, and 5-for-6 free throws, Zhang Yang fiercely scored 42 points!

Along with DeRozan’s 20 points 5 rebounds, Harden’s 16 points 7 rebounds 14 assists, West’s 8 points 8 rebounds, Louis Williams’ 12 points 5 assists, Nick Young’s 14 points…

The Lakers easily defeated the Cavaliers 128 to 105, winning the championship with a series score of 4-1!

With 16 wins and 1 loss, the Lakers’ Finals across 4 seasons have been dominating, claiming 4 consecutive championships!

Zhang Yang scored 28 points in G1, 34 in G2, 36 in G3, 38 in G4, and 42 in G5… With a shooting percentage of 54.6%, a three-point shooting percentage of 45%, he averaged 35.6 points, in addition to 6.4 rebounds 3.8 assists 2.6 steals,

defeating Harden’s average of 18.4 points 7.8 rebounds 9.6 assists, DeRozan’s average of 24 points, he won Finals MVP for 4 consecutive years!

This time, before Silver announced his name, Zhang Yang really thought Harden had a chance to defeat him for FMVP.

When it came to scoring, Harden could achieve 25 points 5 rebounds 10 assists, leading the team in rebounds, and the whole Finals process he organized the offense neatly, ‘Ha’ was the real cornerstone.

But unlike when he came here in ’14’, back then the media embarrassingly praised Kobe, who averaged 15+7+7, should have won FMVP. Yet this time, even G3 when Harden got a triple-double, almost no media spoke up saying Harden should win FMVP.

Yet Zhang San during the interview said Harden was their MVP.

He was quite puzzled before, but when Silver announced his name, the fans on site began crazily shouting “God,” “Angel,” and his confusion was immediately resolved.

In ’14’, it was only his second championship, and before then he only had the FMVP of 12, the recently defeated James had the championship and FMVP of 13, the gap between their championship numbers wasn’t large.

But now it’s different, he has 4 championships, 4 FMVPs second most in history, winning another wouldn’t affect any other active player, it only makes him greater.

Great enough to shake Jordan’s godhood!

Look, 4 consecutive FMVPs, more than Jordan and O’Neal’s 3 consecutive ones! Los Angeles fans have already shouted nicknames like ‘God’, ‘Angel’!

The media needs a ‘new god’, Silver also needs a ‘god’ for his era!

When Zhang Yang received the FMVP trophy from Russell, he felt comfortable, without the uncomfortable feeling of ’14’… hey, wait a minute, why am I sleepy now?

Zhang San: The ‘honor wall’s’ new photo, I haven’t taken it yet!

Here, there’s a room specifically for FMVP trophies, not even MVP trophies are inside.

On the room’s wall, hang 4 group photos, the first one is him holding the trophy in the middle, Parker on his left, Ginobili on his right, Duncan behind him, all four with stern-faced expressions.

The following 3 photos, all him, Kobe, Nash, and Gasol, from Kobe standing in center position, to holding the cup together, to him standing in center position.

Those photos, he doesn’t really like them, they’re too stiff.

Shouldn’t the Stone Buddha get cornrow hair? Doesn’t that look cool?

Shouldn’t the Demon Blade get a heart-shaped hairstyle on top? Even wearing a wig works!

At least the Sports Car should get a few ring scars, take a Demon-suppressing Wand, right?

Kobe’s hairstyle is also not bad.

If necessary, this one can work too.

If fitting the old Ironsmith’s aura, also can wear work clothes, holding a hammer…

When he saw the photos on that wall, he thought about it, if he could defeat the Warriors and win the championship, he’d take a cool photo with Harden and DeRozan, hang it without notice here.

He worked hard, he fought, he tried hard not to ‘fall asleep’… but still fell asleep deeply.

When he opened his eyes again, he had already returned to his world, early morning of January 10, 2010.

He opened the Gate of Trials, actively entered memories, still filled with resentment for not being able to take the cool photo with Harden and DeRozan.

However, he was very excited about the gains from this trial journey, aside from the task rewards, also— ‘Correct Opening Method for the Three Giants’, ‘Kobe’s Detailed Thompson Positioning Analysis’!